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  • Not to mention that the computer literacy of the youngest generation will literally never be on par with the youngest millennials. I started using windows OS at like 4 years old on windows 95. My first computer classes in school started when I was 6. We had years and years of just typing classes on those dummy keyboards that werent even computers. WPM was an actual marketable skill at that time that they wanted to impart on kids.

    Basically younger millennials have been cemented as the most technologically literate people alive. Most of the younger generation have the same level of computer literacy as boomers and are even worse than most Gen X. Far less capable than even elder millennials. We had actual QWERTY keyboards by the time we had cellphones, so we never were part of the T9 goofiness either

    Nothing is going to catch up the young adults who grew up as IPad kids, because for those of us a bit older we have been exercising actual computer skills basically since we popped out






  • Crazy strict diets or massive dietary changes are also generally very stressful, which in turn makes those changes pretty useless for losing weight. Raising your cortisol levels just makes your body hold onto fat stores, as a cautionary measure, which obviously means you wont be losing much weight.

    Really if people want to lose weight they should focus on tweaking their diet, as OP is describing, but perhaps in a bit more educated fashion.

    For me, I know my old dietary habits were bad for my gut health, centered around addiction to sugar and salt, and didnt feature enough variety of nutrients. So for me, improving my diet meant a few different things:

    1. For my gut health, the most amazing difference came from drinking live kombucha. Way better probiotic content than taking a probiotic supplement. I never realized how bad off my gut was until I started drinking it regularly, and it made a massive difference both in my gut and in my brain (not enough people know how intensely the brain is ruled by the gut). Without a healthy gut, your body thinks its in crisis, and it holds onto fat stores, not to mention the impact it has on your mood and general sense of wellbeing.

    2. Getting away from sugar and salt was the hardest part, and it mostly came down to simply not buying certain foods anymore (other than on occasion). Potato chips I basically quit eating entirely. Snack cakes. Anything with an insane amount of sugar or salt in a highly processed food item, you just have to stop buying it regularly. Treat yourself now and again, listen to your body. But dont listen to your body when its being a crackhead for dopamine triggers like salt and sugar. If you eat processed meals, like freezer section stuff, stop eating that crap. Learn to cook fresh prepared food faster, and dont eat a frozen meal of any kind more than once a week at most. I still cave for a pizza now and again, but primarily I have a rotation of meals I really enjoy making and eating that I can accomplish in exactly 1 hour. If you find that you cook or flavor with too much salt, consider getting into making spicy food. I really enjoy spicy food, and its a dopamine trigger that is relatively healthy in comparison to sugar or salt. Spicing your food heavily also masks the lack of salt if you crave salt. Either way though, just avoiding highly processed foods that are loaded with salt is far better than adding a significant amount of salt to your own food. Salt you add yourself is much easier to taste than the amounts of salt they pack into a lot of processed items.

    3. A lack of nutritional value is a bit more easily resolved. Of course you can always take a multivitamin, but personally I find most of them upset my stomach a lot. So I prefer to find foods that pack a lot of nutritional value in a small package, and try to diversify my food portfolio so to speak. I eat a 12oz bag of unshelled pistachios about every week, as they have an insanely high amount of nutritional content compared to most snackable items. They do have a lot of fat, but it is a relatively healthy profile of fat compared to the fat content of processed foods. Another I would say is acorn squash, just an incredible amount and variety of nutrients despite not being my favorite vegetable. Avocado is good, although I eat it less frequently. I primarily cook with avocado oil though now rather than olive oil, both because it has a higher heat degradation point (less carcinogenic) and a better nutritional profile. I dont usually snack, but when I do it is fruit, cheese, and nuts like 80% of the time. Its the little things like that which will make a big difference in the long run. Eat what you enjoy, but dont only eat what you crave. Try to find ways to incorporate new healthier foods into the meals or snacks you already enjoy.

    Overall, a lot of these things are more expensive in the world of fresh foods. Everyone knows pistachios, avocado, and good kombucha arent cheap. But in comparison, dollar per pound or whatever, to the boxed quick-and-easy shit most people have come to rely on as food sources, it is actually far cheaper. Sure you have to spend time cooking, and you might have to buy groceries more frequently to avoid waste, but at the end of the day you have a much healthier diet, better quality food, and way way way less unnatural preservatives, sugar, salt, and all the other shit you really dont want to be eating because it fucks with your body and mind.

    Ive been practicing this type of “diet” for 3-4 years now, and while I havent really lost any weight I also dont gain any weight and my ratios of fat/muscle/water whatever are most likely much better (im not enough of a health nut to actually check, but by eye at least), and overall I am significantly healthier and feel way better than I ever did before I slowly figured this shit out











  • The steep irony of birtherism is that, had Obama lost and McCain won the election, it would had to have been legally adjudicated whether or not McCain was actually a viable candidate based on the circumstances of his birth.

    McCain was born in the Panama Canal Zone the year before people born in the PCZ were automatically granted citizenship at birth. The same rule retroactively provided people like McCain citizenship, but he was quite clearly not a citizen of the US at birth as is required by the constitution. Arguably he would have never been allowed to be president because of that fact. But everybody was too distracted with racist birtherism to care about that reality, and ultimately the actual born citizen (Obama) ended up winning. So the issue never was settled formally